What is the best way to keep ahead of GraphQL API updates? How do you all do it? Please share your experience.
For example, 2025-01 signals the end of life for 2024-01, and there are app notifications in the partners dashboard and release notes for the API itself. But is there a definitive resource that you rely on?
[Please don’t tell me you just update the Shopify CLI. That’s great for you but not everybody uses it. Our app is cloud-native, server-less, and orchestrated with at least a dozen cloud services.]
On the other hand, I recommend taking a look at the ‘X-Shopify-API-Deprecated-Reason’ response header. In case you are using a deprecated field in a query, this header should be present in the response and should explain the deprecation reason. Unfortunately, my experience is that it does not work very well, but sometimes it may help anticipate required future changes.
As Sinue mentioned, the most reliable resource to keep up to date with any API changes is the developer changelog: Recent changes to Shopify’s platform
but you can regularly visit the api changelog site, at: